Belgian Dogs trained to draiv quick-firing guns 



Dogs in Warfare 



"Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war" 



HOWEVER trite may be the saying that history repeats itself, it is unquestionably 

 apposite in regard to the employment of dogs in warfare. Great hounds were 

 used to guard the camps of Rome. In even more primitive times they were 

 formidable adversaries in hand-to-hand conflicts, while to come to more modern days 

 Frederick the Great and Napoleon two of the greatest soldiers the world has ever 

 seen held a very high opinion of the value of canine sentries. Napoleon, in fact, 

 is said to have urged Marmont to fasten dogs to stakes around the circuit of the walls 

 of Alexandria to keep guard. 



(Recent wars have served to emphasize the advantages which may be gained by the 

 use of the peculiar qualities of scent and hearing which dogs possess. Their sense 

 of scent we human beings lack almost entirely, while they not only hear audible things 

 more quickly than we do, but also hear things which are quite inaudible to u|7] Is it 

 to be wondered at, therefore, that military experts have not been slow to recognize 

 such potential properties? 



WHAT THEY HAVE DONE 



The present-day tendency consequently is to bring dogs more and more into the 

 foreground in warfare. During the Russo-Japanese War the whole of the Manchurian 

 Railway line was guarded by dogs, who gave the alarm, and on several occasions pre- 

 vented the Japanese crossing the line. Those which were sent out from England with 

 the Abor Expedition, N. W. Frontier, more than once prevented the sentries from 

 being rushed during night duty, owing to their keener sense of hearing. In the Tripoli 

 campaign their value was frequently demonstrated, while the dogs belonging to Major 

 Richardson, the famous English trainer of war dogs, rendered yeoman service to the 

 Bulgarians at the siege of Adrianople, where they were able to give warning of at- 

 tempted sorties by the Turks. Some of Major Richardson's well-trained animals were 

 also used in the Spanish trenches in Morocco, being responsible for the finding of 

 hundreds of wounded men who would otherwise have been left to their fate. 



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